17 consecutive wins since May, 47 scored goals, but also 10 defeats from their last 12 visits to Italy, that was Benfica’s record coming into Turin to play against mighty Juventus. And the Portuguese team kept their steak of wins, making it 18 in a row, with 49 goals and a huge win against a direct opponent for the knockout phase of the Champions League: Juventus – Benfica 1-2.1 – Juventus have lost each of their first two group stage games of a UEFA Champions League campaign for their first time ever. Fall.#JuveBenfica pic.twitter.com/Og1MbcLMBy— OptaPaolo 🏆 (@OptaPaolo) September 14, 2022 This was always gonna be a duel between these two teams in a group where PSG is all but guaranteed the first place and Benfica made a huge win tonight, especially considering that they trailed from the 4th minute, but got back, turned the game over and had plenty of opportunities to score even more goals. Unlike them, Juventus had fewer chances, but they came early in the game, and if they managed to score from one of them, the result could have been different.Juve started the game perfectly, with a goal in the 4th minute of the game. Two newcomers, Paredes and Milik were the main protagonists and the Pole scored his second goal since coming from Marseille. Kostić was next with a great chance, but the ball was deflected by Bah into the right-hand post. And that was just it from the home team in the first half, as Benfica took over and keeper Perin had to save his team from Ramos, while Silva hit the post. And then Miretti made a clumsy challenge and VAR intervened and Joao Mario was precise – 1:1.The second half was the same as the first, as Juve dominated the first 20 minutes and had another great chance from Milik, before the visitors took the initiative and scored the winner, while having three more great chances. Neres was the one who used the shuffle in Juve’s penalty area and made it 2-1, while Rafa Silva and Neres (twice) had monster chances to put the game away.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – ROUND 2TuesdayPlzen – Inter 0-2 (0-1)/Dzeko 20, Dumfries 70/Sporting – Tottenham 2-0 (0-0)/Paulinho 90, Gomes 90+3/Liverpool – Ajax 2-1 (1-1)/Salah 18, Matip 89 – Kudus 27/Leverkusen – Atl.Madrid 2-0 (0-0)/Andrich 84, Diaby 87/Porto – Club Brugge 0-4 (0-1)/Jutgla 15, Sowah 47, Olsen 52, Nusa 89/Bayern – Barcelona 2-0 (0-0)/Hernandez 50, Sane 54/Olympique Marseille (3.60) Eintr.Frankfurt 0-1 (0-1)/Lindstrom 43/WednesdayAC Milan – Dinamo Zagreb 3-1 (1-0)/Giroud 45 pen, Saelemaekers 47, Pobega 77 – Orsic 56/Shakhtar – Celtic 1-1 (1-1)/Mudryk 29 – Bondarenko 10 og/Chelsea – Salzburg 1-1 (1-1)/Sterling 48 – Okafor 75/Real Madrid – RB Leipzig 2-0 (0-0)/Valverde 80, Asensio 90+1/Copenhagen- Sevilla 0-0Man.City – Dortmund 2-1 (0-0)/Stones 80, Haaland 84 – Bellingham 56/Juventus – Benfica 1-2 (1-1)/Milik 4 – Joao Mario 43 pen, Neres 55/Maccabi Haifa – PSG 1-3 (1-1)/Chery 24 – Messi 37, Mbappe 69, Neymar 88/Rangers – Napoli 0-3 (0-0)/Politano 68 pen, Raspadori 85, Ndombele 90+1/***odds are subject to change***
